Riot of Flavours

Riot of Flavours Food is one of my favourite things - whether I write about it, cook it or eat it - and Riot of Flavours is my creative vent.

Riot of Flavours is my passion - it is my creative canvas on which I paint my food experiences - the cooking experiences, eating out and travelling. Visit the blog (www.riot-of-flavours.com) for detailed posts and recipes. You can also visit me on Instagram

August - went by like the wind! Some silent moments - mostly mad work days - lots of food - baking with , meeting all m...
04/09/2026

August - went by like the wind! Some silent moments - mostly mad work days - lots of food - baking with , meeting all my favourite girls! Praying September is just as happening!

❤️🧿

If there’s one person who can make me bake, it is — my beloved nephew who absolutely loves cooking. Eating, not so muc...
16/08/2026

If there’s one person who can make me bake, it is — my beloved nephew who absolutely loves cooking. Eating, not so much. Cooking, yes.

Today, he came back from a hectic and fun weekend and all this boy wanted to do was bake a cake.

And how could I say no?

So I fell back on some of my old, tried-and-trusted recipes. I dug through my old blog backup files and found the recipe for Dorie Greenspan’s Devil’s Food Cake.

The rest is in this pic and my substack link in my bio.

Oh I forgot to tell you’ll all about it - I started a substack account two years ago and barely updated it. But now I’m on track to doing so - 🤞.

So catch a lot of these posts in longer form on my Substack account.

For now, see the bio for the recipe.

July. Celebrating travel, and friendship. The beginning of the year started with a fantastic trip to Sikkim and Darjeeli...
01/08/2026

July. Celebrating travel, and friendship. The beginning of the year started with a fantastic trip to Sikkim and Darjeeling. Beautiful scenery, moments with friends, fantastic weather! Beautiful Sindhi food and meeting the food gang after forever - And my one little cooking stint 🤭. Ending with an amazing weekend trip to Kozhikode meeting school friends most after 25 years and feeling like we never left school. Coming back with the feeling of a gap being filled, a wound being healed, and a sense of calm and genuine bliss.

August. Be good please.

What we ate in Japan post # - I don’t remember considering I plain forgot about the series and still didn’t get beyond ...
29/06/2026

What we ate in Japan post # - I don’t remember considering I plain forgot about the series and still didn’t get beyond our first location - ie Osaka. But today I jump on to this brilliant Teriyaki Beef with Sushi rice at the bottom and an egg yolk on top thanks to watching an amazing Bulgogi Philly Cheesesteak dish, that made me crave said Japanese dish.

This was at a restaurant in a non descript lane in Tokyo. Took us 10 min to figure out where it was - and we went in after reading about the burger. All thoughts of the burger flew out of the window once we had this Teriyaki Beef.

The beef was lightly seasoned with Japanese Soy, and freshly cracked pepper that didn’t steal the spotlight but made itself known. The sauce dripped into the sushi rice and the sauciness of the fresh egg yolk just made it all Mmmmmmmmm.

If only we could recreate the dishes we eat while traveling as well as our tastebuds and minds remember!

I used to be a proper Bombay girl — the kind who’d walk miles to get somewhere, hop on buses without a second thought, a...
26/04/2026

I used to be a proper Bombay girl — the kind who’d walk miles to get somewhere, hop on buses without a second thought, and know every bus number and route by heart. Then work pulled me toward the suburbs, and trains soon followed.

Walking through Colaba Causeway, Bhaji Galli, and every corner of Crawford Market in search of the right thing felt completely normal. I never thought twice before running after buses and trains.

Yesterday, I went back to Santacruz market after what feels like ages. And in just two hours, I remembered exactly why I loved it all so much. It was never really about the shopping.

It was the people. The shopkeepers you strike random conversations with. The street food — samosa, vada pav, sandwich, bhajji pav, chaat. The chaotic, almost musical rhythm of fruit and vegetable sellers alongside clothes vendors. And this gorgeous old home with the blooming pink bougainvillea in front tucked away behind all the chaos.

For two hours, I forgot the heat, the noise, the crowd (thankfully not overwhelming) — and just soaked in that familiar, irreplaceable Bombay energy.

TV shows and food were our thing. Random trips to our favourite (and honestly, only) restaurants in Salalah somehow were...
12/04/2026

TV shows and food were our thing. Random trips to our favourite (and honestly, only) restaurants in Salalah somehow were a favourite outing. Chinese Chopsticks’ ginger chicken, Udupi Restaurant’s Wednesday special chapati and kurma, Mangalya’s brilliant Thalassery biryani, and Kutaini’s kadhai chicken with dal fry.

Try as I did, I never quite found that Kutaini-style kadhai chicken again — not in my so many years of going back and forth to Dubai.

So I finally did what any of us would do. In 2018, I asked my friend .z.m.aa for her dad’s kadhai chicken recipe.

Cut to the last few days — Instagram flooding me with kadhai chicken reels, and suddenly the craving was very real. So I took Uzma’s recipe, added the technique I saw on the reals and tweaked it all to suit our taste at home.

And what a hit it turned out to be.

Succulent chicken leg pieces, slow-cooked in a simple gravy of onions, ginger-garlic-green chilli paste, tomatoes, and barely-there spices. Finished with plenty of ginger slivers and fresh coriander — the kind of dish that delivers on every bite.

A perfect Sunday lunch!

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10/04/2026

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There’s a palpable feel to small town India. Trying to capture this from my travels in the post - from Jodhpur to Bhopal...
05/04/2026

There’s a palpable feel to small town India. Trying to capture this from my travels in the post - from Jodhpur to Bhopal to Burhanpur. The smells, the sights, the dreams - all wash over you.

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